Part 19 (1/2)

Corbridge published his ”West Prospect of Yarmouth.” Buck published one in 1741; and Laing's Map came out in 1867.

1726.

July 14th. Mrs. Bridget Bendish, granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, died at Southtown.

1727.

Hon. W. Townshend and Hon. Horatio Walpole returned to Parliament.

The _Norwich Mercury_ of this date says:-”The persons appointed for choosing a Mayor for the town of Great Yarmouth (according to custom) were locked up in a room on Tuesday last at 12 o'clock, and did not determine the election till 9 o'clock on Thursday morning, when Samuel Artis, Esq., a gentleman of known loyalty and integrity, was declared Mayor-Elect for the year ensuing, to the great disappointment of the Tories.”

1729.

The Pillory removed.

50 raised by the town for the relief of the English prisoners at Mequinez.

1730.

July. A remarkable storm and tempest; hailstones of prodigious magnitude fell.

1732

Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, K.G., High Steward of the Borough.

1733.

Dec. 20th. Organ now at the Parish Church first opened. The Rev. Thos.

Macro, D.D., minister of Yarmouth, preached the sermon on ”The Melody of the Heart.”-_Eph._ 5, 19 _verse_. (See Jan. 25th, 1869.)

1734.